David Walkinshaw, who owns Savile & Grannan Funeral & Cremation Service in Arlington, Mass said in regards to the practice of setting up guestbooks where mourners can email their condolences: “Funerals are such a personal thing and really require person-to-person contact.” If funeral directors are thinking email is tacky and impersonal, that really says something. These are the same folks who charge for everything but sneezing in the presence of the dead. Ok, well, some of them probably charge for that. So is it tacky to email condolence to someone? Seriously, I think it is. I much prefer phone call, a handwritten note or face to face for things like death, divorce which the last time I checked were the two most stressful things in life. My son drew me a picture story the other day; you can’t get much more personal than that. The condolence would probably just be eaten by some bayonese filter anyway, thinking it is some scam to sell funeral plots or viagra.

While on the subject of death, let’s switch to life (beta life that is), I’m now heading off to Microsoft to do some beta testing. I’ll see if I can’t write a journal entry or two in my technology on the web blog. Maybe take a picture of the outside of the playtest facility or lunchroom or something; whatever I’m allowed to do without violating my NDA.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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